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WorksheetsSemester Exam Review - US History Since 1890
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Which of the following statements best defines Andrew Carnegie's ideas in his essay, "The Gospel of Wealth"?
Frivolity is the right of those who have accumulated wealth
The rich should use their wealth in a way they best see fit for a better society
Charity is primarily the domain of religious organizations
The "rags to riches" success story, with its promise of wealth through hard work, is possible for everyone.
The Wabash case, decided by the Supreme Court in 1886, led to the passage of which law?
Hepburn Act
Elkins Act
Comstock Law
Interstate Commerce Act
A group of companies that is controlled by a single group of business leaders is an example of
A monopoly
A trust
An oligopoly
Communism
Abstention by government from interfering in the workings of the free market is called
Laissez-faire
Socialism
Social Darwinism
Entrepreneurialism
Which of the following technological developments were NOT a result of the tremendous growth of the railroad industry?
Steel rails
Locomotive construction
Telephones
Air brakes
Unlike a small business, a corporation
Is owned by stockholders
Passes liability to stockholders
Depends upon an owner or owners for its existence
Is not publicly owned or traded on the stock market
The control of the market by a few companies is known as
A monopoly
An oligopoly
A trust
A corporation
Investment capital raised by a business through subscription is called
A stock
A bond
A trust
A corporation
A debt investment in which an investor, in effect, loans money for a fixed time and amount is called
A stock
A bond
A trust
Capital investment
Which of the following statements best describes the state of the American economy between 1865 and 1900?
The United States experienced economy growth unsurpassed to that time in world history
The United States experienced a long-term depression because of the Civil War
The United States experienced a series of booms and busts that only ended because of government intervention
The United States experienced mild economic growth
Which of the following presidents was NOT assassinated between 1865 and 1900?
Abraham Lincoln
James Garfield
William McKinley
Grover Cleveland
Tammany Hall of the late 19th century was
The location where President Garfield was assassinated, causing the end of the spoils system
The headquarters of the newly formed NAACP
The location that became the basis for the Plessy v. Ferguson decision
A Democratic political machine that controlled New York City politics
The largest source of government income until the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913 was the
Tariff
Federal property tax
Federal income tax
Federal sales tax
The Republican Party's pro-business policies during the Gilded Age did NOT include
The protective tariff
Promotion of the gold standard
Providing land grants for railroads
Encouraging racial segregation in the South
Books sold widely to young boys that told stories of impoverished youngsters who, through perseverance, ambition, and strong religious belief made their way out of poverty and achieved the American dream were written by
Terrence Powderly
Horatio Alger
Horatio Gates
Grover Cleveland
The significance of the Haymarket Square Incident in 1886 was that
Unions won their demand for an 8-hour work day
The use of Pinkerton guards as strikebreakers was outlawed
It stimulated a wave of fear of anarchism and its potential connection with unionism
It led to federal intervention in labor union matters
The American Protective League was fanatically
anti-Catholic
anti-Semitic
anti-immigrant
A and C
The WCTU attracted its greatest following among
African Americans
Populist farmers in the Midwest
Middle-class Northern whites
Recent immigrants
William Jenning Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech was primarily an expression of
Fundamental religious beliefs
Advocacy of the free and unlimited coinage of silver
Anti-imperialist convictions
Opposition to the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools
Which of the following would have been most likely to support the presidential campaign of William Jennings Bryan in 1896?
A Kansas farmer
A Chicago industrial worker
A Philadelphia merchant
A New York Republican party member
What was the Open Door Policy?
Policy proposed by the United States that would give all nations equal access to Chinese markets
Policy proposed by Great Britain that would give all nations equal access to Chinese markets
Policy proposed by the United States that would divide China into "spheres of influence"
Policy espoused by Chinese nationals to expel foreign influence from their country
Why was the Open Door Policy important to the United States?
It gave the U.S. colonial territory in Asia
It ensured that the U.S. would have access to Chinese markets
It locked European nations out of Chinese markets
It allowed China to invest in the U.S.
American foreign policy prior to the 1870s was characterized by
The U.S. seizing colonies in the Pacific and the Caribbean
The U.S. abiding by a strict isolationist policy with no formal relations with foreign nations
The U.S. avoiding formal alliances with European nations and attempting to keep European powers out of the Americas
The U.S. using the Marines as a policy force throughout the Western hemisphere
Which of the following would NOT be an argument of the Anti-Imperialist League?
Imperialism caused the need for an expanded military
Imperialism hurt manufacturers' ability to obtain raw materials
Imperialism would encourage people from different races to enter the United States
Imperial empires are too costly to maintain
Commodore George Dewey was noteworthy to the Spanish-American War for
Capturing Puerto Rico
Sinking the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay
Sinking the Spanish fleet in Santiago Harbor
Preventing Spanish reinforcements from reaching Cuba
The uprising in China in which Westerners, Christian missionaries, and Chinese Christian converts were slaughtered was known as the
Boxer Rebellion
Insular cases
Taiping Rebellion
Sino-Japanese War
Which of the following ideas would NOT be part of the Roosevelt Corollary?
The US would continue limiting European influence in the Western Hemisphere
The Monroe Doctrine would be expanded to include Asia as well as the Americas
The US had the right to intervene in Latin-American conflicts
The US could act as an international police force
What label did some commentators give William Taft's policy of encourage private American investments in underdeveloped regions of the world?
New Nationalism
Dollar Diplomacy
Missionary Diplomacy
The Good Neighbor Policy
As a reprisal for the attack on Columbus, New Mexico, President Wilson sent American forces into Mexico to search for
Victoriano Huerta
Venustiano Carranza
Francisco "Pancho" Villa
Porfirio Diaz
Extraterritoriality is...
The state of foreigners being exempted from the jurisdiction of local law in China
The policy proposed by the United States to allow all nations equal access to Chinese markets
Japan's policy of modernization following the US's forcing the nation to trade
The policy that imperialist nations must be in complete control of a territory in order for it to be claimed as a colony
Which of the following muckracking journalists is NOT correctly matched with the focus of his reporting?
Upton Sinclair -- abuses in the meatpacking industry
Lincoln Steffens -- political corruption
Frank Norris -- railroad control of state government
All of the above are correct
Which of the following was NOT a governor elected on a Progressive platform?
Hiram Johnson of California
Frank Norris of Illinois
Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin
Albert Cummins of Iowa
What was the name of socialist Upton Sinclair's book that described the wretched work conditions, price fixing, and putrid meat in the packing industry?
The Octopus
The Shame of the Cities
The Jungle
The Meatpackers
As a result of the Northern Securities Co. v. the United States Supreme Court decision
Theodore Roosevelt gave up the attempt to bust trusts
The Sherman Antitrust Act was declared unconstitutional
The Sherman Antitrust Act was declared constitutional
The proposed merger of the railroads violated the Sherman Antitrust Act
Which of the following laws was NOT passed during the Roosevelt Administration?
Hepburn Act
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Federal Reserve Act
Which of the following is NOT true concerning Jim Crow laws?
Blacks and whites were segregated into separate facilities, including schools, waiting rooms, accommodations, etc.
The ability of blacks to vote was restricted through the use of literacy tests, poll taxes, etc.
Most Progressives were opposed to segregation and fought to have the laws repealed
Such laws were upheld by the Supreme Court until 1954
The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
Ended segregation in the United States
Upheld the doctrine of "separate but equal"
Allowed African Americans to serve in the armed forces
Stated that "separate but equal" applied only to private businesses
The first Progressive reformers appeared on the _____ level.
Municipal
State
National
None of the above
Which of the following was NOT a Progressive electoral reform measure?
Recall
Referendum
Election by district or ward
Direct primary
Under the Wilson administration, the executive branch of the federal government became ____.
More racially integrated
More racially segregated
More streamlined
Less reliant on the bureaucracy
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution
Granted suffrage rights to women
Allowed the government to impose an income tax
Prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors
Changed how U.S. Senators were elected
The term "Bolshevik" refers to
A supporter of the Tsarist government in Russia
A member of a revolutionary communist faction in Russia
A member of the white Russian loyalist army
Anyone who subscribed to communist ideology
The main purpose of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) was to
Inform American consumers about wartime regulations and restrictions on food, gasoline, and nylon, etc.
Infiltrate behind German lines and distribute flyers to the Germans and occupied citizens urging them to undermine the war effort
Report to American newspapers on the status of the war
Disseminate pro-war propaganda and promote public support of the war in the United States
The "spark" that started World War I was
Germany's invasion of Belgium
the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand
the assassination of Russian Tsar Nicholas II
The sinking of the Lusitania
In the presidential election of 1916, the Democrats emphasized
That Wilson had managed so far to keep the nation out of the European war
Domestic issues strongly and almost ignored the European war as an issue
A belligerent stand against German violations of American neutral rights and that a Democratic victory would lead to immediate military intervention on the Allied side
that the United States should take a firm stand against both British and German violations of neutral rights and should not support trade with either nation
Herbert Hoover was significant to the American effort in World War I as head of the
Rationing Board
Food Administration
War Industries Board
Navy
Expressions such as "liberty cabbage" and "liberty sausage" replacing "sauerkraut" and "bratwurst" during the war were an indication of
Food shortages in America
American food relief to Belgium
American hostile reaction to things German
American patriotic fervor to increase the food supply by planting home "victory gardens"
In an attempt to force Russia out of the war, what exiled Russian revolutionary did Germany send back home?
Joseph Stalin
Alexander Kerensky
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Woodrow Wilson ____ the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Opposed
Tacitly supported
Campaigned for
Ignored
In 1916, Woodrow Wilson won the presidential election
With other fifty percent of the vote
With less than fifty percent of the vote
After the results were sent to the House of Representatives because no candidate won a majority of the electoral votes
Wilson did not win the election of 1916
The preacher of "Pan-Africanism" and founder of the UNIA was
W.E.B. DuBois
J. Edgar Hoover
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Which of the following is NOT an example of a consumer good first made widely available and affordable in the 1920s?
Radio
Electric iron
Automobile
Television
A Christian fundamentalist is one who
Believes in the fundamental inerrancy of the Bible ; believes every word of the Bible is literally true
Wishes to base morality on secular, rather than religious, fundamentals
Accepts the basic or fundamental truths of all the world's religions in the spirit of equality
Believes in the basic or fundamental general ideas of the Bible, but not the literal truth of every statement.
Which of the following celebrated trials best illustrates the cultural conflict between fundamentalism and modernism in the 1920s?
The Leopold-Loeb Trial
The John T. Scopes Trial
The Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
The Albert B. Fall Trial
Which of the following is true about the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928?
It created an alliance between the United States and France
It was a bilateral pact for naval disarmament
It was a multilateral pact condemning war
It contained provisions for the enforcement of peace
Which of the following women supported eugenics, contraception, and abortion as methods to limit the reproductive abilities of those she considered "unfit"?
Margaret Sanger
Alice Paul
Zelda Fitzgerald
Clara Bow
The new American mass culture resulted in all of the following changes EXCEPT
The boom in the motion picture and radio industries
The establishment of the celebrity as a defining element in modern life
The rise of automobile ownership across the country
The decline in newspaper and magazine circulation
Who wrote, "there can be no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime"?
Woodrow Wilson
A. Mitchell Palmer
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
What was the goal of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
To prevent war
to limit military buildup
to force European nations to repay their war debts
To end the use of protective tariffs
Teapot Dome is located in
Utah
Montana
Alaska
Wyoming
In 1882, Samuel Gompers founded the
Knights of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
International Worker of the World
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the railroad?
Creation of time zones
Creation of national markets
Decrease of American products sold internationally
Development of oligopoly and monopoly firms
During the period between 1865 and 1900, most industrial growth occurred in which regions of the United States?
The South and Midwest
The West and South
The Northeast and Midwest
The West and Midwest
___ were the sinews of industrial expansion in America.
Steam engines
Oil pipelines
Telegraph lines
Railroads
According to the text, the American entrepreneurial spirit is best personified by Andrew Carnegie and...
Samuel Gompers
Jay Cooke
John D. Rockefeller
John Pierpoint (J.P.) Morgan
Despite the many similarities between the United States and Russia in 1865, industrialization occurred only in the U.S. on a large scale. Which of the following were the reasons for this?
Strong spirit of entrepreneurialism and individualist ethos
Habits of acquisitiveness of capital and embrace of the free market
A tradition of democracy and the rule of law
All of the above
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 was aimed primarily at
Curbing abusive pricing and hauling prices by the nation's railroads
Increasing interstate trade by forbidding states from levying tariffs
Increasing interstate trade through government assistance
Increasing interstate commerce by offering incentives to companies
During the period between 1865 and 1900, which political party was most associated with state-based capitalism, support for internal improvements, and support of a protective tariff?
Democratic party
Populist party
Republican party
Socialist party
The amount of money a worker receives, adjusted for inflation, is called
Real wages
Gross domestic product
Capital investment
A bond rating
Social Darwinism was the widely-held belief that
The survival of animal life was determined by natural selection and evolution
The social and financial elite had been chosen by nature to rule and control the affairs of lesser men
Direct and purposeful human intervention in social and economic affairs was needed in order to improve society
The means of production, distribution, and exchanges should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Which author is credited with coining the term "The Gilded Age"?
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Mark Twain
Lincoln Stephens
The Gilded Age received its nickname from the
Improvement in the average American's standard of living
Perceived corruption, greed, and the superficial appearance of wealth
Success of mineral strikes in California and the western territories
Growth of cities and their attractions
Which of the following was NOT a minor political party during the Gilded Age?
The Prohibition Party
The Populist Party
The Greenback Party
The Communist Party
Who won the highly contested presidential election of 1876?
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden
Benjamin Harrison
Which of the following was NOT a major constituency of the Republican Party during the Gilded Age?
Northern businessmen
African-Americans
Protestants
The Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan was the de facto military arm of the
Democratic Party
Republican Party
American Federation of Labor
Anarchists
Which of the following was NOT a role played by the local saloon for immigrant workers?
A bank
A meeting place
A political-free zone
A place to obtain alcohol and hot meals
Anarchism is the belief
That the interests of native-born citizens should be protected against those of immigrants
That working people could run their own affairs without government
That the means of production and the railroads should be owned by the government
In the unlimited coinage of silver and gold
An immigrant to the United States during the 1880s would most likely have emigrated from
The British Isles
Scandinavia
South America
Eastern Europe
Beginning in 1891, most European immigrants entered the United States by way of
Ellis Island
New Orleans
San Francisco
Liberty Island
The de Lome letter had the effect of
Discrediting the McKinley administration
Temporarily improving United States-Spanish relations
Worsening United States-Spanish relations
Beginning the Spanish-American War
What is imperialism?
The extension of a nation's power over other lands
A set of ideas about human life or culture
An extreme pride of devotion that people feel for their country or culture
The policy of military preparedness and building of weapons
Which was NOT a major reason that industrialized nations also became imperialist nations?
Need for new markets to sell goods
Ideology
Access to raw materials
Interest in Eastern culture
Alfred Thayer Mahan was significant to the development of American imperialism through his writings on
Social Darwinism
Sea power
The closing of the frontier
Christian missions
Which of the following was NOT a contributing factor to the U.S.'s involvement in the Spanish-American War?
The explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
Jingoism
The desire to free Cuba from Spanish rule
The desire to build a canal through Panama
Which of the following became US possessions between 1890 and 1910?
Puerto Rico
The Philippines
Hawaii
All of the Above
According to the Platt Amendment, the United States had the right to
Intervene in Cuban affairs in cases of instability
Build a naval base at Guantanamo Bay
Delay independence of the Philippine Islands until they were deemed ready to be independent
Build a canal through Panama
In order to build the Panama Canal, the U.S. assisted in Panama's revolution against
Nicaragua
France
Columbia
Spain
The most serious issue in the debate over ratification of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 was
The status of the Philippines
Political rights of Puerto Rico natives
American commercial rights in Cuba
The sum of money to be paid by Spain to the United States
Following the Spanish-American War, Cuban independence was protected with the
Decision in the "insular cases"
Signing of the 1898 Treaty of Paris
Passage of the Platt Amendment
Passage of the Teller Amendment
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution
Allowed the federal government to collect income taxes
Changed how Senators were elected
Granted women suffrage
Prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors
The 17th Amendment to the Constitution
Allowed the federal government to collect income taxes
Changed how Senators were elected
Granted women suffrage
Prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors
Of the following reforms, which was NOT advocated during the Progressive Era?
Laws prohibiting racial discrimination
Prosecution of trusts
Use of initiative and referendum
Direct election of United States Senators
Woodrow Wilson won the presidency in 1912 largely because
He promised to keep the United States out of a European war
There was broad support for his New Freedom program
He received the endorsement of Socialist Eugene V. Debs
The Republican vote was split between William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt
On the issue of racial equality, Booker T. Washington urged
Immediate recognition of black civil rights
Blacks to relocate to Liberia where they could obtain full civil rights immediately
Accommodation, hoping whites would respond favorably to black civil rights once they had proven they were capable of citizenship
Acceptance of Jim Crow laws in the South while fighting for improved facilities for blacks
A key leader in the formation of the NAACP was
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Zora Neale Hurston
Rather than the voice of the people, Progressive reforms looked to____ in developing public policy.
Experts
Financial elites
Big business
Conservatives in government
Theodore Roosevelt was placed on the Republican presidential ticket in 1900
To bolster the ticket due to the unpopularity of William McKinley
To ruin his career and keep him out of power
To bring the same progressive ideas to the national stage that he had been developing as governor of New York
To ideologically balance the ticket
Jane Addams's Hull House was established for the purpose of
Treating the insane
Rehabilitating drug addicts
Disseminating scientific farming information
Aiding the urban poor, especially immigrants
The Social Gospel
Brought attention to public scandal
Sought to use Christian teachings to minister to the urban poor
Was rejected as materialistic by Pope Leo XIII
was dismissed by serious reformers as irrelevant moralization
All of the following were reasons for the United States entry into WWI EXCEPT
The Zimmerman Note
The sinking of the Lusitania
Unrestricted submarine warfare
colonial expansion
The Zimmerman Note urged which country to attack the United States?
Cuba
Mexico
Germany
Columbia
Speaking out against the war, interfering with the sale of government bonds, or questioning the government's policies became a crime under the
Sedition Act
Espionage Act
Article X
18th Amendment to the Constitution
All of the following were factors in the failure of the United States to join the League of Nations EXCEPT
Fear of further involvement in foreign wars
President Woodrow Wilson's illness
A group of US Senators who opposed American participation on any terms
The influence of the Soviet Union within the League
The Wilson Administration's expansive federal actions related to the railroads, food, wages, and prices during the war became known as
Wartime socialism
Wartime communism
War associationalism
War Industries Board
Which of the following was a principal method that the U.S. government used to finance the war effort?
Deficit spending and printing more Federal Reserve notes
Borrowing money from other countries
Increasing taxes on corporations, incomes, and inheritances
Cutting most forms of federal domestic spending, including education and welfare
President Wilson's plan for peace following World War I was called
The League of Nations
The Fourteen Points
Self-determination
The Treaty of Versailles
Who was the commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF)?
Woodrow Wilson
John J. Pershing
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Theodore Roosevelt
Which of the following was NOT an example of vigilante or local action taken against those who were not seen as fully supporting the war effort?
The suppression of radical publications by the US Postal Service
Slacker drives
The forced deportation of IWW-affiliated miners in Bisbee, Arizona
The Green Corn rebellion in Oklahoma
The 18th Amendment to the Constitution
Granted suffrage rights to women
Allowed the government to impose an income tax
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors
Changed how US Senators were elected
Which US President successfully campaigned on a platform of "normalcy"?
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Which of the following is correct about the Five Power Treaty?
It adjusted the amount of money Germany was required to pay in reparations to the Allied Powers of WWI
It imposed specific limitations on the number of battleships allowed to the signatory nations
It outlawed the use of submarines in warfare
It confirmed the isolationist nature of the United States during the 1920s
The purpose of the 19th Amendment was to
Create a federal income tax
Outlaw the consumption of alcohol
Outlaw the sale and transport of alcohol
Grant suffrage to women
The Palmer Raids were a response to
Organized crime developing after Prohibition
Government corruption as illustrated in the Teapot Dome Scandal
Fears of communism following the Russian Revolution
The reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s
Which of the following was NOT a consequence of Prohibition?
Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act
Gangs in New York and Chicago developed criminal empires centered on the illegal importation of alcohol
Speakeasies opened in cities across the nation
Flappers became a symbol of defiance to the law
America's postwar boom in the 1920s resulted from
The rapid pace of technological advances
The expansion of the automobile industry
A policy of dramatic tax cuts on corporate profits, personal incomes, and inheritances
All of the above
All of the following were characteristics of the "flapper" except
Shorter hair styles
Skirts worn to the ankles
Drinking and smoking
Slang vocabulary
Which of the following accurately describes the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s?
Its activities were limited to the South
It favored immigration restriction as well as white supremacy
It repudiated fundamentalist Protestantism
Many of its members were elected to Congress
What lured many African Americans to northern cities after World War I?
An abundance of factory jobs
New urban culture
Racial tolerance in the North
Christian fundamentalism
Which of the following accurately describe(s) the Harlem Renaissance?
It flourished during the 1920s
It was centered among blacks in the South
It consisted of a period of dramatic black intellectual and artistic creativitiy
It brought about significant gains in civil rights
Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, involves
Buying out raw material producers and distributors
Merging with companies producing similar products
Forming trusts
Using new methods to increase production
The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to
Decrease Chinese immigration
Create segregated classrooms
Settle a disagreement between China and the United States
Stop Chinese Americans from attending school in the United States
Cities in the late 19th century expanded with the development of all the following EXCEPT
Subways
Skyscrapers
Airplanes
Suspension bridges
What was the original purpose of tenements?
to alleviate slum conditions
to integrate lower-class neighborhoods
to provide inner-city housing for wealthy families
to provide single-family homes for working-class families
Skyscrapers were made possible by the invention of
Safer fire escapes
larger bricks and stronger cement
the elevator and a steel framework
the airplane and the bicycle
Individuals who attempted to expose corruption and inequality during the Progressive Era were known as
Muckrakers
Populists
Suffragists
Fundamentalists
The Progressive Movement wanted to
Give more political power to the public
Protect big business interests
Expand America's landholdings overseas
Promote civil rights for African Americans
Which statement describes a referendum?
A petition that indicates the public's support for a vote on a bill
The removal of a public official from office at the hands of the electorate
An opportunity for the public to accept or reject a proposed bill
The casting of votes in a confidential manner
The Progressive Movement had all of the following goals, EXCEPT
Protecting social welfare
Promoting business monopolies
Creating economic reform
Fostering efficiency in the workplace
Muckraker Ida Tarbell wrote about the
Ruthless methods used by the Standard Oil Company in its rise to power
Evils of the political machines found in large, eastern industrial cities
Bribery schemes practiced by the owners of the nation's largest railroad systems
Selfish motives behind the rise of the feminist movement and temperance leagues
President Woodrow Wilson's progressive platform was nicknamed the
New Freedom
League of Nations
Square Deal
Dollar Diplomacy
Which best describes the practice of Yellow Journalism?
Exaggerating and sensationalizing events to sell papers
Accurately reporting just the facts of a news story
Opinion-based stories meant to support one side of an issue
A balanced approach to news that is fair to all sides
In 1898, the mysterious and controversial destruction of the battleship USS Maine was viewed by many in the United States as
an accident with nobody to blame
an act of sabotage by unhappy Americans
Cause for war with Spain
the beginning of yellow journalism
When sugar planters, missionaries, and Marines drove Queen Liliuokalani from power, the US gained a permanent foothold in
Hawaii
Guam
Samoa
Panama
What was a main goal of the Progressive Movement?
To restrict overall immigration
To improve working conditions
To regulate interstate commerce
To lower railroad shipping charges
On March 25, 1911 a deadly fire killed 146 garment workers. Where did this disaster take place?
Haymarket Square
The Pullman Factory
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Plant
John T Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of
Biology
Evolution
Creationism
Fundamentalism
The Harlem Renaissance refers to
a women's basketball team.
a population increase in Harlem in the 1920s.
a program to promote Latino culture
a celebration of African-American culture in literature and art
F. Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920s as the
Harlem Renaissance.
Jazz Age.
Prohibition Age.
Roaring Twenties.
Charles Lindbergh was famous as a(n)
Politician
Compose
Inventor
Pilot
The NAACP did all of the following EXCEPT
fight for legislation to protect African Americans
Work with anti-lynching organizations
Propose that African Americans move back to Africa
Publish The Crisis
The "Great Migration" of 1910 - 1920 refers to the movement of
Immigrants from Europe to America
People from rural areas and towns to large cities
African Americans from the United States to Africa
African Americans from the South to Northern cities
Jazz Music was born in New Orleans and was spread to the North by such musicians as
Louis Armstrong
Zora Neale Hurston
Paul Robeson
Langston Hughes
